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Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences | 
| Authors: Peter Levine, Ann Frederick
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
Buy Used: $4.48
You Save: $13.47 (75%)
Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 4335
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 155643233X
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8521
EAN: 9781556432330
ASIN: 155643233X
Publication Date: July 7, 1997
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Product Description
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.
Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 Walking the Tiger: Healing Trauma December 21, 2008
seeker
Profound and moving description of effects of trauma. Clear explanation of guided somatic experiencing.
 A must read for trauma victims July 1, 2008
Onyx
This is a very informative and important book that explains the very core of what trauma is, how it affects us, and what we can do to overcome our suffering.
New hope for those who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder May 31, 2008
Barb (Southern California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a Marriage Family Therapist Trainee who has suffered from severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for over 15 years. Western medicine includes some form of medication and desensitization from the traumatic event. Although this treatment has been helpful, I believed that my PTSD symptoms were a life-sentence, which included anxiety, fear, phobia's, bodily sensations, depression and a sense of confusion because my life never seemed to be the same again after the traumatic event.
This book has given me new hope in the 'healing' of PTSD. Because this book shows you how to "discharge" the trauma from the nervous system, one can experience freedom again from the torment of living with traumatic symptoms.
This book entails much more than I will be writing in this review, but I can tell you that this book offers hope, practical exercises, and an in-depth, yet simple, knowledge of trauma and a recovery process so that an individual may begin to experience a joyful life again.
waking the tiger February 28, 2008
Deb (new Zealand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book, best not to read it in one sitting as I found it "woke my tigers" all at once, which the book says can happen.I did seek help as book suggests.Well worth it all.
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